19th & 20th Century Sculpture
19th & 20th Century Sculpture
Bust of a Child
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December 13, 01:01 PM GMT
Estimation
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Description du lot
Description
Attributed to Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
German
1758 - 1841
Bust of a Child
white marble
36cm., 14⅛ in. overall
Former collection of a Lady;
Christie's, London, 6 December 2012, lot 172;
Private collection, UK
This charming bust of a child demonstrates the stylistic trademarks of one of Germany's most important Neoclassical sculptors, Johann Heinrich von Dannecker. Dannecker's signature style can be noted in the skilled carving of the curling hair, which compares closely to his bust of Schiller in the MFG/ Zentralbibliothek der deutchen Klassik (inv. no. Pl 32/1980). Dannecker carved several marble busts of children, some of which are now in the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart (inv. nos. P 533, P 559) and demonstrate a similar carving of the soft rounded cheeks, open blank eyes with pronounced eyelids, and with similar truncation around the shoulders.
RELATED LITERATURE:
C. Von Holst, Johann Heinrich Dannecker der Bildhauer, exh. cat. Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, 1997, nos. 104, 111-112, 137
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